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Pancharatnam-Berry phase

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The Pancharatnam-Berry phase (PB phase), also called the geometric phase of polarized light, is a phase shift that light acquires when its state of polarization is changed, with a size set by the geometry of the change on the Poincaré sphere rather than by the optical path length the light travels.[1][2] It is named after the Indian physicist S. Pancharatnam, who described it in a 1956 paper on the interference of polarized light, and the physicist Michael Berry, who in 1984 described the general geometric phase of slowly cycled quantum systems and in 1987 showed how the two results are related.[3]

In optical engineering the PB phase is used to make flat components that shape a wavefront. In these Pancharatnam-Berry optical elements (PBOEs), also known as diffractive wave plates, geometric phase optics or geometric phase holograms, the orientation of a birefringent material's optic axis is patterned across the surface, so the local orientation, not the local thickness, sets the phase given to circularly polarized light.[4] Liquid crystal PB lenses, gratings and deflectors are ultrathin films, and in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) research they have been used for varifocal and multifocal displays that address the vergence-accommodation conflict, for foveated displays, beam steering, chromatic aberration correction and waveguide coupling.[5][6] Metasurfaces and metalenses can also use the geometric phase, alone or together with propagation phase, to shape light.[6][7]

Reviewed 15 October 2026. Checked every cited paper's bibliographic data (Crossref), the abstracts, the full texts of Yin 2022, Xiong 2021, Lee 2018, Cohen 2019 and Garza-Soto 2023, the Meta Half Dome 3 blog post, the Guttag and Le Monde Informatique ImagineOptix reports, Meta patent US11668929B2 and the Chen and Xu 2025 commentary against the article's claims. About review dates.

Definition

Cohen and colleagues, in a 2019 review in Nature Reviews Physics, distinguish two main kinds of geometric phase in optics. The spin-redirection phase arises when light of fixed polarization changes its direction of travel. The Pancharatnam-Berry phase usually applies to light that travels in a fixed direction through an anisotropic medium while its polarization changes.[2]

Pancharatnam defined when two beams in different polarization states are in phase. In his words, "The phase advance of one polarised beam over another (not necessarily in the same state of polarization) is the amount by which its phase must be retarded relative to the second, in order that the intensity resulting from their mutual interference may be maximum."[3] Berry later called this rule Pancharatnam's connection.[3] The connection is not transitive: if state A is in phase with state B, and B is in phase with C, then C need not be in phase with A. Cohen and colleagues state that the leftover phase difference equals half the solid angle of the geodesic triangle that the three states span on the Poincaré sphere, the sphere on which each point represents one pure state of polarization, with circular polarizations conventionally at the poles and linear polarizations on the equator.[2] Berry's 1987 paper states that a cyclic change of polarization is accompanied by a phase shift "determined by the geometry of the cycle as represented on the Poincaré sphere", and calls the polarization phase "an optical analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm effect".[1]

Half-wave plates and the factor of two

The case used in practical devices is a half-wave plate acting on circularly polarized light. A half-wave plate flips left-handed circular polarization to right-handed and right-handed to left-handed, whatever its orientation. The orientation still matters for the phase: if the plate's fast axis is rotated by an angle θ, the outgoing beam carries an extra phase of 2θ, which is the geometric phase Pancharatnam described for a change from one circular polarization to the other.[2] The sign of the phase depends on the handedness of the input. Lee and colleagues write the cross-polarized output of an anisotropic nanostructure as carrying a phase of 2σθ, where σ is +1 for one circular polarization and -1 for the other.[7]

From phase to optical element

Because the phase depends only on orientation, an element can be built by varying the orientation of the optic axis from point to point. Cohen and colleagues describe a segmented half-wave plate whose orientation grows linearly across the element: the linear phase ramp tilts the wavefront and steers the beam, and it sends left- and right-circularly polarized light in opposite directions.[2] A linearly varying phase profile gives a grating, and a parabolically varying profile gives a lens.[5] According to Yin and colleagues, when the layer meets the half-wave condition all diffracted light goes into the +1 and -1 orders, and for circularly polarized input the diffraction efficiency can in theory reach 100%. They also note that a PB lens made by surface alignment has an optical power that does not depend on the birefringence of the liquid crystal.[5] Lee and colleagues describe the geometric phase as "a purely geometrical effect", which gives a phase shift tendency that does not depend on the wavelength of the light.[7]

Transmissive liquid crystal PB elements are "thin" diffractive elements that work in the Raman-Nath regime, like a surface relief grating.[5]

History

Pancharatnam and Berry

S. Pancharatnam joined his brother S. Ramaseshan at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore in 1953, at the age of 19, and worked there on absorbing biaxial crystals under their uncle C. V. Raman. His paper "Generalized theory of interference, and its applications" was published in 1956, when he was 22.[3][8]

Michael Berry, at the University of Bristol and unaware of Pancharatnam's work, showed in 1984 that a quantum system in an eigenstate, slowly carried around a circuit by varying parameters in its Hamiltonian, acquires a geometrical phase factor in addition to the familiar dynamical phase factor.[9][3] By the end of 1986 Ramaseshan and Rajaram Nityananda had revived Pancharatnam's work and presented it as an example of Berry's phase. Berry's 1987 paper in the Journal of Modern Optics then set out the precise relation between Pancharatnam's phase and the phase of slowly cycled quantum systems, using spinors and 2 x 2 Hermitian matrices.[3][1] Garza-Soto, Hagen and Lopez-Mago write that Pancharatnam's work was not widely recognized until Berry endorsed it in 1987.[3]

In their 2023 retrospective in the Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Garza-Soto and colleagues argue that Pancharatnam's paper is often misread. They write that he "nowhere considers" the case widely attributed to him, a change in the phase of polarized light after a cyclic evolution of its polarization, and that later researchers followed Berry's explanation of the work in terms of cycles of states.[3]

Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements

In 2002 Ze'ev Bomzon, Gabriel Biener, Vladimir Kleiner and Erez Hasman presented "space-variant Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements" made from computer-generated subwavelength gratings, in which the local orientation and period of the grating set the phase; they demonstrated a PB diffraction grating at a wavelength of 10.6 μm.[10] A 2003 paper by the same group described a polarization-dependent focusing lens for 10.6 μm infrared radiation based on quantized PB phase diffractive optics.[11] In 2006 Lorenzo Marrucci, Carlo Manzo and Domenico Paparo reported a PB phase element for the visible range made with patterned liquid crystal; it generated helical light modes and could be switched between opposite helicities by changing the handedness of the input circular polarization. They noted that the approach could be generalized to switchable lenses, beam splitters and holographic elements.[12]

Liquid crystal polymer elements followed. In 2008 Chulwoo Oh and Michael Escuti reported an achromatic polarization grating made from reactive mesogens (polymerizable liquid crystals), built as a stack of two chiral gratings with opposite twist, with diffraction efficiency of approximately 100%, an extinction ratio of at least 1000:1 and a bandwidth Δλ/λ0 of about 56%, roughly the visible range.[13] In 2015 Kun Gao and colleagues made an ultra-thin (about 2.26 μm) f/2.1 Pancharatnam lens using polarization holography alignment, with efficiency above 97%.[14] The same year Jihwan Kim, Escuti and colleagues described interferometric and direct-write methods for recording geometric phase holograms in photoaligned liquid crystal films a few micrometres thick, including a lens at F/2.3 (at 633 nm) with 99% diffraction efficiency across visible wavelengths.[15] Dielectric metasurfaces took a parallel route: in 2014 Dianmin Lin, Pengyu Fan, Hasman and Mark Brongersma made ultrathin gratings, lenses and axicons by patterning a 100 nm silicon layer into nanobeam antennas, one of the works Cohen and colleagues list under geometric-phase wavefront shaping.[16][2]

Types of elements

Element Optic-axis pattern Behavior Notes
PB grating or deflector Orientation changes linearly across the element[5] Deflects left- and right-circularly polarized light in opposite directions[2] Can be an active, voltage-switched liquid crystal cell or a passive polymer film; dual-twist and multi-twist layers give broadband, wide-view versions[5][17]
PB lens (PBL) Orientation follows a parabolic phase profile[5] Positive power for one circular polarization and negative power for the other[5] See Liquid crystal lens for lens designs and comparisons with other liquid crystal lenses
Geometric-phase metasurface Rotated anisotropic nanostructures such as nanorods[7] Lens or grating action on the cross-polarized component; the co-polarized component passes without the lens phase[7] Lee and colleagues fabricated theirs by nanoimprinting[7]

Reflective liquid crystal elements are a related family. Yin and colleagues describe cholesteric liquid crystal reflectors, polarization volume gratings (PVGs) and reflective cholesteric lenses as "thick" elements based on Bragg reflection, made by imposing a linear or parabolic phase pattern on a cholesteric layer through surface alignment.[5] In 2017 Yun-Han Lee, Kun Yin and Shin-Tson Wu reported a reflective PVG for AR waveguide coupling with a measured coupling efficiency of 90% at 650 nm and a 50 degree deflection angle.[18]

Fabrication

Liquid crystal PB elements are usually made by photoalignment. Kim and colleagues recorded the desired pattern either by interference exposure or by direct writing into a photoalignment layer, then coated photoaligned liquid crystals that reproduce the pattern as an inhomogeneous optic-axis profile in a film a few micrometres thick.[15] Yin and colleagues describe surface alignment with interference exposure as the most widely used method for liquid crystal gratings, able to give small periods and smooth phase changes and suited to low-cost mass production. Both passive elements, polymer films stabilized by UV light, and active elements, liquid crystal cells that switch with an applied voltage, can be made.[5] Metasurfaces are made by lithography;[6] Lee and colleagues fabricated a 20 mm diameter see-through metalens by nanoimprinting to show that it could be mass-produced.[7]

Applications in VR and AR

Zhan and colleagues' 2019 review lists focusing, beam splitting, waveguide coupling and wavelength filtering among the effects realized with liquid crystal PBOEs, and credits their tunability, polarization selectivity, nearly 100% diffraction efficiency and simple fabrication for their use in VR, AR, mixed reality and head-up displays.[4]

Varifocal and multifocal displays

Because a PB lens has opposite optical power for the two circular polarizations, its focus can be switched in two ways. In active addressing, a voltage across a liquid crystal PB lens turns its power on and off; stacking N active lenses gives 2N depths, but the efficiency of active lenses is usually optimized at a single wavelength. In passive addressing, a switchable half-wave plate changes the input polarization in front of a polymer PB lens, which can be designed for high efficiency across the visible spectrum.[6] Yin and colleagues report that switching times of 1 to 2 ms have been demonstrated in active PB lenses or liquid crystal half-wave plates.[5]

Tao Zhan, Yun-Han Lee and Shin-Tson Wu used a stack of switchable liquid crystal PB lenses to create real focal depths for each eye in a multi-focal-plane display published in 2018.[19] Xiong and colleagues describe it as a four-depth display using two actively switched lenses, with the display synchronized to the lens module so that the frame rate falls by the number of depths.[6] Guanjun Tan and colleagues instead used polarization multiplexing: a spatial polarization modulator controls the polarization of each pixel, directing the two images to the two focal planes of a single passive PB lens and giving a dual-focal-plane display without time or space multiplexing.[20] Only two planes are possible this way, because there are only two orthogonal polarization states.[6][5]

Facebook Reality Labs described its Half Dome 3 varifocal prototype in a September 2019 blog post. The post describes its electronic varifocal system as a thin, alternating stack of "polarization-dependent lenses (PDLs)" and "switchable half-wave plates", in which "six liquid crystal lenses are driven to sweep through 64 focal planes".[21] In their 2021 review, Xiong and colleagues describe a "fast-response 64-depth varifocal module with six PBLs", citing a 2020 SPIE presentation by Douglas Lanman on display systems research at Facebook Reality Labs, and suggest that such a module could be combined with pancake optics.[6] The Liquid crystal lens article covers the prototype in more detail.

In December 2021 the optics analyst Karl Guttag reported on his blog that Meta had bought ImagineOptix, a maker of passive Pancharatnam-Berry phase lenses using a patterned photoalignment layer and UV-cured liquid crystal polymer.[22] Le Monde Informatique reported that Meta confirmed the acquisition to The Information without disclosing the price or date, and described ImagineOptix as a North Carolina company founded in 2004.[23]

Foveated displays and beam steering

A PB deflector placed after a switchable polarization rotator steers a beam to one of two angles, which Yin and colleagues note can be used for pupil steering and foveated imaging.[5] Tan and colleagues built a foveated display in 2018 with two panels and an optical combiner: one panel covers a wide field of view at low resolution, the other is optically minified to raise the effective resolution of the central region by 5 times, and a switchable PB deflector shifts the high-resolution region.[24] Chanhyung Yoo and colleagues used a doublet of geometric phase lenses with a single display in 2020. Depending on the polarization state, the lens set acts either as an optical window (fovea mode, high resolution) or as a beam expander (peripheral mode, wide viewing angle), and the two images are superimposed by temporal polarization multiplexing.[25] Yin and colleagues give its optical efficiency as 12.5%.[5]

Resolution enhancement

Yin and colleagues describe two VR resolution-enhancement schemes based on PB gratings. In one, by Lee and colleagues, an active PB grating shifts the image position from frame to frame, so the original and shifted pixel grids appear alternately and the apparent pixel density is doubled. In the other, by Zhan and colleagues, a passive PB grating produces the same pixel shift through polarization multiplexing, with a pixelated polarization rotator aligned to the display panel.[5]

Chromatic aberration correction

A diffractive PB lens and a refractive lens have opposite chromatic dispersion, so pairing them can cancel much of the chromatic aberration of a VR eyepiece.[5] Zhan and colleagues hybridized an ultra-broadband PB lens with a refractive Fresnel lens and added a broadband circular polarizer to block the zero-order leakage of the PB lens that otherwise appears as a ghost image; they report a clear image within the entire 100 degree field of view.[26] A Meta Platforms Technologies patent, filed in April 2020 (priority April 2019) and granted on 6 June 2023, describes an optical lens assembly, for example with a pancake lens, in which a PB phase element whose Abbe number has the opposite sign to the lens's corrects the lens's chromatic aberration.[27]

Waveguide AR and Maxwellian displays

PB gratings deflect the two circular polarizations in opposite directions. Yin and colleagues describe a waveguide AR system by Yoo and colleagues that uses this to combine images carried by left- and right-circularly polarized light, doubling the horizontal field of view. They also describe a two-dimensional pupil duplication for a Maxwellian view display, by Lin and colleagues, made by stacking two one-dimensional PB gratings and a quarter-wave plate to enlarge the eye box.[5] Reflective PVGs have been demonstrated as waveguide couplers in laboratory AR prototypes, including a full-color design that splits red, green and blue gratings between two waveguides; Yin and colleagues note that surface relief gratings remain the dominant couplers in waveguide AR products.[5][18]

Metasurface eyepieces

Gun-Yeal Lee and colleagues reported a see-through metalens eyepiece for AR in 2018. Its nanorods impose a PB phase on the cross-polarized component of circularly polarized light, so the element acts as a lens for the virtual image while letting light from the real scene through; a circular polarizer is used with it. The nanoimprinted metalens had a 20 mm diameter and a numerical aperture of 0.61 (at 660 nm), and the prototype display reached a 90 degree field of view for red light (76 degrees for blue light); the authors calculated that a 35 mm lens could exceed 120 degrees.[7] Xiong and colleagues note that a geometric phase metalens is intrinsically diffractive and so suffers from strong chromatic aberration.[6]

Limitations

PB elements work with circularly polarized light, and the systems described above use circular polarizers, polarization rotators or pixelated polarization modulators to set the input state.[5][28] As diffractive elements they have focal lengths that change with wavelength, and the half-wave condition is met exactly at only one wavelength unless broadband dual-twist or multi-twist structures are used; Xiong and colleagues write that varifocal PB lens modules may need extra digital correction in rendering to compensate the different focal depths of red, green and blue.[6][5][13] Light that is not converted leaks into the zero order and can appear as a ghost image.[26] PB lenses switch between discrete states, so tunable systems need several lenses, and time-multiplexed multifocal designs lower the frame rate.[6][28]

In a 2025 commentary in Light: Advanced Manufacturing, Chao Ping Chen and Miao Xu compared geometric-phase liquid crystal lenses with gradient-index ones. They wrote that geometric-phase lenses work only with circular polarization, are more sensitive to wavelength and layer thickness, are normally fixed rather than electrically tunable, and must strictly meet the half-wave requirement. They concluded that gradient-index lenses "outrival" geometric-phase lenses "in nearly every metric", but that it was "still too early to tell" which approach would prevail for AR and VR eyewear.[28]

See also

References

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